WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SPACES FOR COLLEGE "NO SHOWS"?

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<p>I just posted this on the another cc thread...I'm just curious what happens to the spaces for the kids who are "no shows."</p>

<p>There has to be kids who suddenly don't come up with the money or decide not to go. We were just at a restaurant and the kid in front of us said he just found out he can't go to UCI because his parents didn't come up with the money (father lost his job).</p>

<p>Has anybody decided at the last minute not to go? After all, these are teenagers and kids change their minds all the time. What was the deadline for UC's and Cal State's $$ to be in?</p>

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<p>When colleges admit their class as part of their enrollment management they take into consideration that all students admitted will not attend in addition they already know that they will lose students to summer melt (students who have gotten off of waitlist and are attending other schools, students who defer at the last minute, student who don't graduate or cannot attend because of financial reasons). </p>

<p>The number of student not attending because of the summer melt however is not a really large. If the waitlist is not closed, they sometimes take students from the waitlist.</p>

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<p>in Canada we just post it on the websites and people just applly.</p>

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<p>oh yea.. if people dont go cause of fianancial problems that why dont they just take loans? DUH!</p>

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<p>not everyone can get a loan... part of getting a loan is having established GOOD credit.. most people with financial problems don't meet that requirement.</p>

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<p>Let me tell you that Student Loans are a joke for any family that makes decent money. There used to be student loans that you didn't have to pay back immediately...no more...and the upfront fees and interest rates are so high that I just don't know how kids afford college.</p>

<p>I know several parents who are going deep in to debt just to send their kids to college...and I know of one kid who just got a call from USC and they offered him a spot. But NO financial aide came with this last minute offer.</p>

<p>And by the way...one more question...do UC's and Cal State's have wait lists?
Obviously, my son is not on the wait list...</p>

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<p>Not sure about Cal States, but UCs do not have wait lists.</p>

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<p>that's funny mtlvrmom, I know a kid who just decided not to go to USC!</p>

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<p>I think most colleges plan on a little summer "melt" as someone else stated.</p>

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<p>But the planning can sometimes go awry, which is one reason some schools end up with oversubscribed fall quarters.</p>

<p>In many ways, this is like overbooking on airlines, except no one gets bumped at college, they just don't get housing.</p>

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<p>I know of someone who was slated to start at a college at the mid-year mark. She called in August to see if she could start in the fall. Because of unexpectedly higher summer melt, she started in the fall.</p>